Two judges have now struck down Donald Trump's second attempt at banning Muslims from a handful of countries to enter the United States. A federal judge in Hawaii issued a temporary restraining order...
Updated: March 22, 2017
Democracy Now! speaks with Judge Shira Scheindlin, former United States district judge for the Southern District of New York, about her role CCR's case Floyd v. City of New York , which found the...
Updated: December 28, 2017
January 24, 2018...Notable post-9/11 domestic terror stings include a plot to attack the Fort Dix Army Base in New Jersey, an attempt to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Oregon and a conspiracy to blow up...
August 20, 2018... As a recipient of the Harriet Pilpel/Planned Parenthood Fellowship within the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program , Watson interned in her third year with the Center for Constitutional...
July 12, 2019...The Department of Investigation, an independent city watchdog, found officers received nearly 2,500 biased complaints between 2014 and 2018. A third of the cases were investigated by the DOI,...
July 25, 2019...The case came from a lawsuit filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which all welcomed Wednesday’s ruling. “The...
December 18, 2019... The Center for Constitutional Rights today in a new report said what Black and Latino New Yorkers already know: racist policing is still a primary policy of the NYPD. Will new Police Commissioner...
January 23, 2020... “Michael Bloomberg had no sense of what everyday New Yorkers -- particularly New Yorkers of color, working people, and low-income people -- he had no sense of what their lives were like, because...
February 21, 2020...Bloomberg said that “in 2012, in my third term, we began putting more safeguards in place. And we began scaling back the numbers of stops.” The numbers corroborate that, but Darius Charney , a...
March 6, 2020...Legal experts following the case also welcomed the ruling. “Today, the International Criminal Court breathed new life into the mantra that 'no one is above the law’ and restored some hope that...
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